New Glarus Elementary

Located at 19 14th Avenue, in New Glarus, Wisconsin, New Glarus Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary campus that educates 419 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by New Glarus School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so New Glarus Elementary sits 30% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in New Glarus School District (953 students total), New Glarus Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, New Glarus Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest is composed of 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Green County (around 35%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, New Glarus Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Green County put the typical household earns roughly $82,852 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Green County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,278 students), New Glarus Elementary is one campus in the mix.

New Glarus Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around New Glarus Elementary. On composite proficiency, New Glarus Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 64.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Glarus Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 411 students in 2018 to 419 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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